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Sunday, April 3, 2005
Tough customer 
| | It's long, and good. Read the whole thing. |
Pope hope
| | A few Sundays back, an old guy told me about his plans to write a book about a pope who gets pregnant. Nobody knows by what means, immaculate or otherwise, the holy father becomes heavy with child. But the prospect of a pregnant pope puts the Vatican PR machine into a spin, especially after an ultrasound reveals that the child will be female. |
| | The book won't get written, because the author is already an old man. Also, he is a Franciscan priest. |
| | About sixteen years ago, while my wife and I were still engaged, and going through a weekend retreat in preparation for our Catholic wedding, a young man, one half of another couple, told a story about an insult some priest had delivered in the past. The young man laid bame on the church. The priest running the retreat, a smart and genial dude who ran a very active parish in San Jose that fed something like five thousand homeless people a week, said "It's a big church. Find another priest." |
| | Those two stories come to mind on the morning after the passing of our latest pope. |
| | As Richard Rodriguez has ofen pionted out, the center of gravity in the Roman Catholic Church is no longer in Rome. The significance of this fact will now become apparent. Johannes Ernst says, |
| | I think there's a good chance that the new pope will be from a continent other than Europe (e.g. Africa) and for such a person, the traditions of 2000 years of Rome will mean relatively little. Such a person could imagine a papacy that embraced the above quote. It will be the most radical change in 2000 years of history of a venerable organization. It would upset a great many. But the world has changed so much, and while many societal changes could be ignored over the centuries, this one cannot. Change is in the air. |
| | Of course, there's a better chance that the next pope will be male, and won't get pregnant. |
| | My own bet is that he will at least take his church on a break from the conservatism of his predecessor. |
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